The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Other Melodramas
Brilliant Classics 96245
Artem Belogurov and I recorded a CD of melodramas - recitations with keyboard accompaniment - from ca. 1900. This genre of musical declamation was incredibly popular throughout the late 18th and 19th centuries, but died out with the rise of naturalism in acting in the 1920s. Artem and I have been inspired by historical recordings and sources, and have put together a CD of dramatic, lyrical and highly elaborate musical speech: music that speaks and speech that nearly sings.
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